Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-04-14
GENERAL NEWS.

Several earthquake shocks hive oc
Cured at Alden, Arabia.
An American is the leading dentist in
ST. Petersburg, Russia.
Secretary Fairchild is consistent
member OF the Episcopal church.
A rosebush from Henry Clay's old
home has been trans planted TO rhurlow
Weeds grave.
Mr.. Blaine and Senator Hale will prob
ably sail on the same steamer when they
go 10 Europe.
Governor Church, of Dakota, appointed
his "hired man" veterinary surgeon Of
the territory.
Bishop Lee, of Delaware, has lived to
see 1913 men raised to the Episcopacy
since his own Consideration in 1871
There are 101 persons who bear the
name Of Smith in Bourbon county, Ken
tuakey.
Miss Elizabeth Cary died at Concord,
n. H.. q few days ago at the age of l01
years.
Judge Albion Tourgee, author Of "a
Fools Errand,' thinks Of returning to
North Carolina TO live.
President Cleveland is aid to be say
ing three-ffth of his salary. That is
not a bad beginning for newly marrisd
man.
John Habberton, the father of "Helen's
Babies" is exchange editor Of the New
York Herald. The babies are still doing
well.
The distressing drouth in portions of
ha Ia Of
farming districts are abandoning their
homes.
AS the tenants on the Irish estate of
Lord Lansdowne refuse to compromise,
me eviction of all in arrears will be com
menced April 20.
At a conference of Scotch millers at
Glasgow resolutions were adopted de-
manding that duty be placed on foreign
flour.
Nathan Haskell Dale, of Philadelphia,
has become editor of the new weekley
just established in New York by Dewitt
j. Seligmam.
Ex-Sccretary "Dickn Thompson, of In
diana, still holds on to his $4,000 end
of tho Panama Canal, in spite of all the
efforts of the French to dislodge-him.
Miss Sophie Markoe, it is agreed, is a
handsome blonde, but it is not true, all
the same, that she is going to marry Sec
rotary Bayard.
An amateur dramatic company at Co
noes, N. y, IS being boycotted by the
Knights of Labor because a young non
union lady employed in one of the mills
Mt that place is n member Of the associa-
ton.
Smelling works to cost $4,000 are to
be erected at Tacoma, Washington Terri
tory. They will be the only institutions
of the kind upon the Pacific coast outside
OF San Francisco.
The number OF weekly and daily news
papers in the United States amounts in
round numbers to 1880 exclusive OF
vast number of monthly and quarterly
1 periodicals.
The most popular man in Berlin, Ger
many, is cue who Jumps from one horse
to another rs obey go at full speed in OPP
posito directions in one of the royal cir
Gus rings
Natural gas has been found in a well in
one of the hills south of West Covington.
KY, at a depth of $50 feet. II escapes at
the rate of 10000 cubic feet day. Other
wells are to be bored in the vicinity.
Mrs. Bishop ii. Warren, worth $4,000
600, is the richest woman in Colorado,
and made her money by cattle raising.
That is the kind OF n woman to get for a
wife.
Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania.
looks taller and leaner as the years pass
by, but he still has a vigorous flow of Ian
guage, and talks fuently on public mat
tiers. He is 20 years of age, but has the
activity of a man of 80,
Henry George recently leotured at a
wostern college. The agreement was to
pay him 5000, aud although the receipts
were only $50, he eXtorted the full 500
from the college boys, Mr.. George Is a
very thrifty sort of philauthropist.
| President McCosh declares that since
! he abolished secret societies mt Prince
/ ton there has been less drinking, and less
opposition 90 the faculty.
1 Arkon, tOD butchers, who are boycott
/ ing Armour Co.'S meats, are trying TO
secure the passage of = city ordinance
4 requiring that all meEt sold in Akron 10
be inspected ON the hoof
In is said that seventeen words in the
Erie railway alone something approach
ing 100000. Hero are the words Such
schedules shall be plainly printed in large
type of at least the size of ordinary plea.
In order to comply with this provision
plea type has been bought by the ton,
and large force ot men Is kept At work
might and day turning ont the huge job.
Buffalo is taking energetic measures to
get fire proof hotel SO that Transient
visitors to that town may not be obliged
TO choose between being roasted TO death
aud executing feats OF ground and lofty
tumblug in inadequate apparel The
library association has voted To- build a
model hotel at an expense OF about ST.
25O0O0 providing the citizens take up a
I3ls per cent. loan on the property to She
amount of 100000.
Auotr two months ago Henry Reusen
was taken 10 the hospital at ST. Cloud,
Mimi, for treatment Of diseased bones
In his legs DR.. Ramsey removed from
each shu-hone pieces four OF five inches
long and nearly an inch thick. soon